Alan Hope is well known to Wetherspoon – he likes our pubs and often appears in the Wetherspoon News magazine. He approached Wetherspoon and asked whether we would sponsor him, not the party as he was standing in high profile constituency. Wethrespoon said it would give him £1,000.

Our interview with Alan Howling Laud Hope took place at a J D Wetherspoon in Fleet in Hampshire, where Mr Hope is a local councillor.

In the interview Mr Hope talks about the political beginnings of the Monster Raving Looney Party.

Mr Hope also reveals how in the information age of new social media he is campaigning remotely from outside of the Uxbridge and South Ruislip constituency.